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Jo,

Things are always slow this time of the evening. It isn't anything to do with you or what you posted.

I have been really glad to see you here posting and have enjoyed getting to know you. I felt like I could really relate to many of the things you posted.

I'm sorry you are feeling bad about being here. I loved your T's response by the way.

(((hugs)))

(((((((jo)))))))
Haven't been keeping up on the forums lately, but am really sad to read this.

Jo,

Please don't feel sad for posting so much. There will be times when you need more than others, and there will be days when you need less. Things like this seem to come in waves. I think we can all relate to what you are feeling.

jo - i very much like having you here and what you post about. don't want to pressure you to stay, but i really really hope maybe you reconsider and do stay. i so want to respond and have been planning on it. slow typing and limited right now. i will miss you much if you go. i don't think there is anything at all you need to apoligize for. not one bit. nope, not at all. pls don't go.

Jo, I loved having you back here and I enjoyed your insight and especially in hearing how you have grown and what you have accomplished during the time you were away. I would ask you to please stay here with us because we need you here with us.

I just came on. The time you posted was during my dinner and get child to bed make lunches time of day. Please don't take lack of immediate response as an answer to your post in any way. There are just times around here when the board is less populated and very slow.

Hugs to you
TN

Oh, I just now saw the second post about leaving.

Please don't, Jo. I read your first post earlier and wasn't able to respond right away, but as I said above, I don't think you are posting too much. I very much enjoy your presence here and can say with all sincerity that I was looking forward to getting to know you better. I really hope you reconsider and don't leave.

Oh, and btw, I've had those days where I'm like screw this place, I'm leaving!!!! So if you do change your mind (and I hope you do), please don't be embarrassed about having changed your mind. So many of us can relate to what you are experiencing.

Hope to see you on here tomorrow!!!

I would totally link to that PAD thread if I wasn't the one who started it- I can't link to threads with my name on them because of...P.A.D.

Jo, you are so welcome here and with all the others I'm hoping you'll decide to stick around... you're a great person. I'm not too great at posting and I'm missing tons of threads that I want to respond to, but I am drained and spacy and haven't got a lot of time or good thoughts, so I've been trying to ignore my anxiety about it and just do what I need to do for me right now. It's hard.

But I really like you and I think you are neat, and I hope you stick around! As for people not responding qucikly...heck, there have been times when I didn;t get a response for like two days, and then other times when I got like 20 all at once...it's just the way it goes, sometimes there are people around who feel capable of posting and other times not... doesn't matter what the content is, it's just are there people who feel able to post on the thread or not...and says nothing about you if there aren't.

Heck, don't worry about being a "know it all" is that what you think? sheesh...we are all know it all's around here, I think! that's why this place works...we can all offer something from our own experiences and stuff like that. But yeah, DF is right- primarily we should feel ok just posting about us and using this place for suppor t and what we need.

I like the way that was put..and you don't come aross as a know it all, though, you have a lot of insight and great stuff to offer from your own experience and we all value that here, that is for sure!

((((((Jo))))))

BB

Jo, I would normally have more to say around this, and I don't because of reasons totally unrelated reasons, but I just wanted to say that I would be very sad to see you go. I didn't know you from before, but I've honestly valued everything you've said since you've been back recently. But it is truly your choice whether to stay or go, and I support whatever decision you make. And even if you decide to leave, know that you are welcome at any time. ((((((Jo)))))))

Hey Jo
We haven't met but I've been reading your posts - I'm just not able to talk much at the moment - but do want to say PLEASE DON'T GO!!! There's no need - you have not upset anyone/crossed boundaries or anything and have been very supportive since your return. You're just feeling a bit raw!! Love your T's response.
Take care and stay please!
Morgs

ooh, I forgot to say I love your t's response too thanks for sharing that wiht us!

((((((Jo)))))) Just caught this thread a few minutes ago. I very much enjoy reading your posts and have never even remotely felt that your posts were "too much", or that you were bugging anyone, and certainly not inappropriate or annoying. On the contrary, I think you sound like a very compassionate, intelligent, insightful person, with an awful lot to give here (I personally would LOVE to hear about those "major breakthroughs in therapy" you mentioned) and I very much hope you do not leave the Psych Cafe.

Unfortunately for the last several months I haven't been posting much - not sure why - the "PAD" coined by Beebs and described here by Deepfried is at least part of it - and it's only recently that I've posted on a couple of threads. I feel very bad for not posting on more threads, but my not posting has nothing at all to do with anyone here personally - I just feel "stuck" most days for what I would consider anything helpful or worthwhile to say.

I'm really glad you had such a good connection with your T today. I love how she responded to you, she sounds like a gem. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Please stay, OK?

Hugs,
SG

Hi Jo

Please don't feel that you have to go - i really enjoyed reading your posts, even if I can't always respond, it's not because I don't want to. I also have huge PAD issues plus more significantly for me, huge time pressures that have made me step back from posting or risk going bonkers with trying to keep up all the time . Sometimes I don't read posts for a day or two and I guess with us all being spread worldwide, an hour of waiting for a response may feel like eternity to you, but is not very long for those reading. Sometimes I need to go and think about a post before I start writin to be sure that I am expressing myself correctly (Beebers, is that also PAD?!)

So don't go Jo, be brave and stick around. We have a lot to learn from you and your great-sounding T. BTW I thought her response was spot on in the email you quoted.

Take care,

starfish

I have totally felt that way before...we've gotta find the PAD thread for you, as BB referred to. I'm such a technical loser I don't even know how to find it or link to it!!

Stay, Jo. You add so much to this community!